Sunday, 5 October 2008

Chicago approves its first Wal-Mart

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5069992/

In a second vote, the council rejected a huge store that Wal-Mart wanted to build in a racially diverse, largely middle-class South Side neighborhood. The vote was 25-21, just shy of the majority of the 50-member council needed to make the zoning change.